The guy was a reporter and there was a camera at the top of the stairs and he was doing some sort of story about the metro. He wasn't talking to himself, he was talking into a microphone. So, if you watch the news tonight here in St. Petersburg, you'll probably see some slightly crazed, impatient foreigner, peeping up and around the reporter every other step, trying desperately to get around him.
Monday, October 13, 2008
I wanna be famous, a star of the screen
I think I've been in the city too long. As I was walking up the stairs coming out of the metro, I was slightly perturbed that the guy in front of me was walking so slow. He'd take one step, stand for a second, take two steps and stand, and then take another step or two. This was driving me crazy because I couldn't go around him because of the mass of people coming down the steps in the opposite direction. Of course, I didn't get too mad because I heard him talking to himself a little bit. Then we got the top of the steps, to the street when I realize what was going on:
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i watched it, but i didn't see you.
You were probably the third or fourth person to be perturbed by the slow moving reporter and express mass signs of annoyance. The poor reporter and his crew had to re-shoot the whole thing over after you left.
If I was in charge of editing I would not have cut your pretty face! I would instead have scraped the story about the metro and immediately done a feature on handsome foreigners in Russia.
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